america versus donald j trump. counsel, please approach the electorate and state your appearance for the record. miss casten, the prosecutor, good morning your honor. molly casten for the united states, along with thomas would head. the judge, good morning. the defense lawyer, good morning your honor, john laurel on behalf of president trump. with me, is my partner greg singer, and tom gladu. notice the appearance as well. as co-counsel for trump as well. the judge, good morning for. everyone we are here for a hearing regarding the parties proposed trial dates. this was the hearing for today. in federal court, in d.c.. to set a date for the trial of donald trump in one of the for criminal trials that he is currently facing. this is the case about him trying to falsify the election results. it is a federal case about that. what this means in practical terms, is that this hearing today was basically the opportunity for trump s lawyers to defend their argument that they have already mad
trump is currently facing. along with trump white house chief of staff mark meadows is one of 19 people indicted on state level rico charges in georgia but meadows spent his day today not in the fulton county courthouse but in the federal court in atlanta because he is asking the federal court to pluck this trial out of state court in georgia and please hold it in federal court instead. why does he want that? well, all the 19 georgia codefendants including trump would probably prefer having their case go before a federal jury drawn from the whole northern district of georgia. they d prefer that to going before a state jury that would be drawn just from blue fulton county. but how likely is it that meadows will get his wish here? how did he do in his five hours on the stand today? if he does succeed, if he does get his case moved out of state court and into federal court, would that mean that the whole georgia case, the whole rico case would all go to federal
all day hearing that did kind of seem like a mini version of the georgia trial in that they hit a lot of the merits of that case. this today was all part of an effort to take that georgia case out of georgia state court and have it heard in federal court instead. we ll talk more about what that means coming up this hour and what we learned from that sort of mini trial in court today. we also got word today from the federal judge who is hearing trump s january 6th federal case in washington, d.c. we heard from her today that she wants jury selection to start in that trial the first week of march. that date is very interesting. it is also very soon. we also, though, in today s proceedings got a window into how that federal judge is going to conduct that case, how she is going to run that courtroom. she had, for example, a surprising and very specific warning for trump s defense team that we re going to get some expert help on tonight over the course of this hour. there is a lot going on.
if mr. meadows succeeds and the case does get moved to federal court does that mean the whole case is going to get moved to federal court, that all of the other defendants will benefit in the same way he is trying to here? great question. i don t think you have enough time in the show for me to explain all of the possibilities, rachel. but there s two answers. yes and no. there s one school of thought that said the other 18 defendants go with mr. meadows. if one goes they all go to put it simply. there is another school of thought and i think this is probably more likely that you would determine what happens to each defendant on his or her own merits. remember, some of them are not even federal officials. some of them wouldn t have any plausible colorable federal defense in federal court. it makes more sense to me that you would determine each one on his or her own merits. that seems fair. random state senator or a publicist for a rapper at least at this point in our country s hist
23-257, united states of america versus donald j. trump. counsel, please approach the lectern and state your appearance for the record. ms. gaston, the prosecutor. good morning, your honor. molly gaston for the united states along with thomas windom. the judge, good morning. mr. laurel the defense lawyer. good morning, your honor. john laurel on behalf of president trump. with me is my partner greg singer and tom blanche who has noticed an appearance as well as cocounsel for president trump. the judge, all right. good morning, everyone. we are here for a hearing regarding the parties proposed trial dates. so this was the hearing today in federal court in d.c. to set a date for the trial of donald trump in one of the four criminal trials he is currently facing. this is the case about him trying to falsify the election results. it s a federal case about that. what this means in practical terms is that this hearing today